During my lunch break, I turned my computer and phone off thinking that I would not waste anytime while doing other non-technology based works. Though it only turned off for two hours, it was already a very long time for me as normally, I'd leave it on even when I go to sleep. I first began to meditate for five minutes, but soon I started to feel “distracted” from being “off”, and my mind kept floating back to the devices. I tried to do some everyday errands so I was not wasting time. I switched to a an art-making activity and stared at a blank canvas, brainstorming about what I could paint. Hybrid images came to my mind, from the actual device transforming to abstract lines of network that symbolizes the Internet. My attention quickly swung back to them again, thinking that there was heaps of work to be done while trying to control myself not to touch them. This back and forth of concentrating in real life and thinking about my devices was exhausting. I realized that my devices and the internet had become an inseparable part of my life and I cannot live properly without it. Even by just taking a little break from them made my mind unsettled and anxious.
I stared back at my canvas again. I often find my ideas online, and the idea of embedding integrating my device with the canvas came to my mind. This mobile phone painting could become a painting that generates ideas. I reversed it in order to reflect that it was in the "off" mode, so the ideas would not be generated into the real world, but instead reversed, generating to onto the canvas space that leads to viewers’ imaginations.
On/Off: Reversed Mobile Painting
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